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The Archives Office of Tasmania is in the process of making reproductions of items from their photographic collection available online.

Photographs Database

ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive, has a variety of services to help you to access the National Collection, preserve your memories, and learn more about Australia's history.

To search for online images, from advanced search, go to collection type and select digital items only. Try a search on CHAUVEL for images of, and about, Charles Chauvel.

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A spectacular collection of art works: Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Western, Asian, Contemporary, paintings, prints, sculptures, drawings, photographs and watercolours are available through the Gallery's online database.

Collection

The Art Gallery of South Australia's web site will introduce you to the collections and to the exhibitions and activities that are available. The collection contains Australian, European and Asian materials.

Through the Gallery's collections and programs visitors are offered exciting encounters with the art of Western Australia, Australian Indigenous art and the art of the world. Emphasis is placed on the Gallery's geographic position as a window to the Indian Ocean Region for Australia.

The Australian Centre for Photography's mission is to promote and enrich the understanding of photo-based art in Australia and this is achieved through a dynamic mix of exhibition, education and publication. In its blend of activities and range of photographic media, the Centre is unique in Australia.

The Bundanon Collection includes works by Arthur Boyd, four generations of the Boyd family and other prominent Australian artists.

Centre for Contemporary Photography is a not-for-profit gallery, education and resource centre which promotes and develops audiences for photo-based art while generating and extending critical discussion around its role and practice.

The gallery's collection is broadly concentrated on contemporary Australian art post 1971. The collection includes paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and glass.

The National Gallery of Victoria is the oldest public art gallery in Australia and houses a collection of great richness and diversity, encompassing all major media of the fine and applied arts, and ranging in date from antiquity to the present day.

The Orange Regional Gallery collects Australian paintings, drawings and prints since 1916. The intention is to build on the core strength of the Mary Turner collection - collecting only works that are perceived as fine works by artists likely to achieve importance in Australian art history.

The Queensland Art Gallery was established in 1895. The major part of the Collection is devoted to Australian art from Colonial times to the present, including painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, decorative arts and crafts. Check out the Gallery's online exhibitions.

The Regional Galleries Association of New South Wales exists primarily as a professional association for the benefit and promotion of its members, the 33 public Regional Galleries of New South Wales.

The Tamworth City Gallery is one of the oldest regional galleries in New South Wales and has a diverse collection, ranging from paintings and works on paper, to early Australian silverware, to contemporary fibre and textile art.

The Gallery's collection policy follows two strands: Australian portraits of all eras and media, and works that are by the region's artists or otherwise reflect aspects of life in this area.

Visual Arts Net is a gateway to Australian visual arts and crafts and has been funded to promote visual arts in an Australian context.

A unique collection of 160,000 pictures of over 5000 different species of Australian Animals and Nature. Visit the ANT Photo Library website. All pictures on the website are high-resolution files ready for you to license and download.

Pictures are their passion and they look forward to sharing them with you!

Art Galleries Schubert is one of Australia's leading Art Galleries, specialising for 18 years in Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Australian Fine Art.

Art.net.au is a showcase for Australian art online and a comprehensive directory of commerical galleries in Australia and the Pacific. This site provides pathways to reliable service providers and a wide range of other useful resources.

If you are interested in the famous bushranger that inspired the painting, that inspired the logo, this web site is a good place to start.

The Australian Landscapes website showcases an online gallery of breathtaking Australian panoramic landscape photography by renowned landscape photographer Mark Gray. All photographs displayed in the gallery are available for purchase online as open or limited edition prints.

The landscape photography galleries of Steve Rutherford, showcase some of the remotest and wildest areas of Australia via a stunning array of landscape photography products and services, which are available to discerning collectors, interior designers and corporate decorators, as well as media and advertising agencies worldwide.

Digital Image Shop Online is an Australian royalty-free image library featuring a variety of photographs and illustrations from Australia and the world.

The online image library of the DW Stock Picture Library includes an extensive collection of over 100,000 images on horticulture, natural history, travel, Australia and a great many more topics.

The online image library of the Sydney Opera House includes external views, venues, events, historical and commercial images, supplied for media usage.

The Towamba River Valley History web site includes historical images that are accompanied by interviews with local residents. The collections include valley views, early settlers, balls and dances, farming and dairy, valley schools and much more.

AMOL is an web site assisting Australian museums and galleries to make information about their collections available online. Search or browse for a museum or gallery in Australia using the AMOL National Guide.

Search AMOL's Open Collections for objects and images from Australian museums and galleries. When conducting a image search select images only from the Find records with section.

The Australian Museum collections have scientific and cultural values and content that make them the nation's most important animal, mineral, fossil and anthropological collections.

The collections of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory encompass Aboriginal Art and material culture, visual arts, craft, Southeast Asian and Oceanic Art and material culture, maritime archaeology, Northern Territory history and natural sciences.

The National Museum holds significant collections relating to each of three primary subject areas: Land, People and Nation. Collections include 80,000 stone tools and Australia's largest collection of bark paintings comprising 1,600 works by numerous artists, spanning two centuries and the width and breadth of Australia.

The collections of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery include Natural Sciences (Zoology, Botany, Geology), Applied Science and Humanities (Art, Decorative Arts, Costume, Social History, Indigenous Cultures, Numismatics, Photographs, Documents and Ephemera).

The Digital Library of Indigenous Australia provides an interactive online archive of photographs, press clippings, videos, sounds and stories of Indigenous culture, both past and present, documenting everyday life and extraordinary events.

The Macleay Museum at the Sydney University, documents the history of Science. The Macleay Museum's Historic Photograph Collection contains approximately 50,000 images dating from the late 1840s to the 1960s. The natural history and ethnographic collections to include historic scientific instruments and historic photographs.

Three significant collections, from New Zealand, the Winkelmann, Firth, and Schmidt collections are now available online through the Auckland City Libraries' Heritage Images Online web site.

The Scott Polar Research Institute Picture Library hosted by the University of Cambridge in England, contains many original works of art and a photograph collection about the Arctic and Antarctic, history of exploration in the Polar regions, and includes material from the expeditions of Scott and Shackleton.

The George Washington Wilson Collection, hosted by the University of Aberdeen photographic Archives, Scotland, includes 40,000 glass plate negatives produced by the Aberdeen firm of George Washington Wilson & Co. during the second half of the nineteenth century. The collection includes images of Australia as Wilson's son, Charles Wilson, toured the colonial townships of Australia capturing a "vivid picture of gold miners and early settlers at work and play, and of the native or aboriginal way of life."